Spiritual Relationship Quotes

When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

I see God as my heavenly father, like my earthly father, as loving and kind. Yes, he disciplined me, he helped me make good decisions, but I knew my dad was always there for me. If I made a mistake, I wouldn't run from my dad, I'd go to him.

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.

The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

Jesus ... HIS sheep, they know His voice and they follow Him whether you disciple them or not!

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

God created us, He created us for His glory, and He created us to have a relationship with Him, and He created us to be all that He desires us to be and He's jealous of that because He does not want to share that with others.

For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

Jesus loves you... He's not 'in love' with you.

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.